Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.
My greatness does not extend to this shelf.
To meditate is to labour; to think is to act.
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
Algebra applies to the clouds.